Description

the subdudes
Sports Page
Fort Collins, Colo.
Nov. 29, 1987

1 set 1: intro
2 Good Rockin' Tonight #
3 Any Cure %
4 One Time #
5 Need Somebody # %
6 Deepest Thoughts #
7 Have You Seen Her? @
8 Can't Find Me %
9 No Time (?) %
10 Run Little One %
11 Hold It (cut) #
12 set 2: She's Alone %
13 Everybody %
14 Someday, Somehow (false start)
15 Someday, Somehow ^
16 Signed, Sealed, Delivered @
17 Help is on the Way %
18 Got You On His Mind %
19 Black-Haired Girl #
20 Rewarded (?) #
21 Oh Girl % +


+ with Joe Cabral on sax

Lead vocals:
# John Magnie
% Tommy Malone
@ Steve Amedee
^ group vocals

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Reviewer: toulousest - - August 9, 2011
Subject: Great music!
Thanks for the upload!!! Great fun to listen to the 'dudes in their early days. The adjustment on the recording speed sounds fine. Thanks for going to the effort -- sobering to think that so many splendid shows never see the light of day due to similar difficulties. Again, many thanks!

Notes

No eq or noise reduction. This recording ran too slow. The pitch was increased by 75 cents (making the overall recording about 4 minutes shorter). Tommy Malone said the correction seemed appropriate: "Yeah the pitch-corrected one sounds right to me. I was much younger of course and my voice a little higher."




Note: This is one of the band's first performances in Fort Collins, where the band members moved en masse (from New Orleans) in October 1987. Malone believes this recording likely to be the band's first performance at the Sports Page, where the band held a yearlong (or more) residency on Sunday nights.

The performances at the Sports Page in Fort Collins and a similar residency at Herman's Hideaway in Denver helped the band build up a significant and lasting following in the Denver-Boulder-Fort Collins area.

Even though this show was recorded several years before their first LP/CD was released, the set list is almost entirely originals - unlike just a few months earlier. Many of the songs wound up on later on official albums, but many did not, such as Can't Find Me, Hold It, Everybody, Black-Haired Girl, Rewarded and possibly others.

Another interesting aspect of the show is that, again unlike a few months earlier when the four members of the subdudes almost equally share lead vocal duties, the lead vocals are dominated by Tommy Malone and John Magnie, as is the case today. Steve Amedee, who nowadays never sings lead, handles lead on a few songs on this recording, but they are all covers. Within a year or so, they would all disappear from the setlist.

Five songs from this recording were included on the band's March 2007 podcast (She's Alone; Someday, Somehow; Hold It; Oh Girl; and Signed, Sealed, Delivered - the last one, however, was faded down as part of the background), but haven't been released commercially. Those versions were not properly pitch-corrected, however.